First week in November

It's not winter yet which is a good thing because as usual, we are not ready! A few days at home (finally) helped to get closer to that place of never quite ready.

Stan, our local mechanical man, came over this week to fix the riding mower (becoming an annual event) so we can move it into its new home in the garden shed!  He also brought his air compressor and they blew out the pipes that run under the road to the garden.

Lots of tasks to prepare for winter...I rolled up the hoses and put them away, stacked and covered the gazebo furniture to protect it from snow, put away all of the outside sitting places (I think I sat in them all this year), washed the front windows and put the storms on (a bit late but oh well), dumped out the bags of leaves from Joan onto the new garlic bed (built and planted a few weeks ago).

I also finished the last of the raised beds inside the fence and planted more garlic on a few of the ends. All 18 are now double-much easier to add the composted cow manure from farmer Ed.  We get milk and poop from the same cows that eat the grass from the field just outside the garden.  Ed bales it once a year and brings us poop in exchange.  We give a donation for the milk!

The cooking continues...this weekend more sauce from the tomatoes (still some left) - cooks for 5 hours and then made into lasagna with layers of roasted vegetables from the garden and a layer of pesto from the freezer made this summer.







All but the onions are from the garden.  I need to figure out why I cannot seem to grow an onion!!















A new Harvest Chutney recipe that used the last of the apples, zucchini and more of the tomatoes!  I made WAY too much chutney this year - but it's nice for gifts and last a l-o-n-g time!

I also waxed the turnips (first year growing turnips) - and put them in the new harvest basket Sara got for her birthday!  More pantry fun!!